Trinidad
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Joined: Mar. 2005 |
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Posted: Sep. 05 2005, 04:46 |
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Quote (TubularBelle @ Sep. 01 2005, 14:35) | What is THE GIMP? |
"The GIMP" stands for "The GNU Image Manipulation Program", and GNU is a kind of license for free and open source sofwtare, so it's a free program to manipulate images, very similar to Photoshop (see here). These months I've been gathering and trying some nice free software, like GIMP, Blender, Wings3D, and others. I must admit that I used pirated software, but I don't want to do it any more.
Quote (hiawatha @ Sep. 01 2005, 15:39) | it looks like a ring of hair. Is this the intent? |
Well, it really looks like my bath after I have a shower (am I going bald? Brrrhh....! ), but no, that wasn't my intent. If you invert the colors you'll get something similar to a ring of fire; I wanted to do the opposite, bright light in the center and some kind of dark energy sorrounding and mixing with it. Well, the final result isn't as good as I would like; as I said it was an experiment. I had anoter idea, but it would involve many time with a 3D program, textures, final retouching, ..., and I didn't have the time, so I thought I could make some quick experiments with 2D, cause I never did something 2D from scratch. So I started with an initial idea, and I polished it while I was trying things.
Quote (Sysiyo @ Sep. 01 2005, 22:42) | The font effect of the album title looks a bit bad |
Yeah, I added it in the last moment, and I'm not very happy with it. Maybe I could have put bigger letters inverting the image, but... bah!
Great images, Wayfarer! Specially the first one; if I were Mike I would put it in the album for sure! The second one's concept is similar to one of my first ideas, which I thought was a little evident, but you've done it very well. You say you've used "Apophysis"... should I try it?
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